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WILLIAM D. YOUNG, OF PITTSBURGQPENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE SHOENBERGERSTEEL COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

MEANS FOR TRANSFERRING ME TA L. FROM FURNACES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 539,563, dated May 21,1895. Application filed July 18,1894- Serial No. 517,945. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM D. YOUNG, of Pittsburg, in the county ofAllegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new andusefulImprovement in Means for Transferring Metal from Furnaces, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a furnace,showing the relation of the traveling carrier thereto. Fig. 2 is across-section through the furnace and carriers, and Fig. 3 is anenlarged detail of a portion of the conveyor.

My invention relates to the transferring of metal from aheating furnaceto apoint where it is furtheracted upon, and more particularly to theconveying of blanks from a reheating furnace to mechanism for furtheraction thereon.

In the drawings, 2 representsa reheating or blank furnace, having ahorizontal series of outlet doors 3 along one side of the same, throughwhich the heated blanks are withdrawn. The doors 3 rest upon projectingledges-4, and in front of the doors and just below the level thereofextends the endless conveyer 5, upon which the blanks fall when drawnthrough the outlet openings. The conveyer carries the blanks to anddeposits them upon a table 6, which is in front of a pair of rollsarranged to turn in the edge of the blanks and remove the scaletherefrom.

The carrying-plates 7 ofthe conveyer extend laterally beyond thecarrying chains and slide upon wearing-plates 8 secured to channel-beams9 supported upon each side of the chains along the upper path of theirtravel, while on their lower path the plates move over a floor 10.

The standards 11, which support the floor and outer channel beam, carryat their upper ends a flat vertical plate 12, which forms an outerinclosing strip for the conveyer and ings, and dropping them upon theconveyor they are taken at once without loss of time or appreciablelowering of temperature to the table 6 and dropped thereon.

The advantages of the invention result from the automatic action of theconveyer and its peculiar location relatively to the exit openings, sothat no handling of the metal is necessary.

Many changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of theconveyer and other parts without departing from my invention; since WhatI claim is- 1. The combination with a blank-heating furnace having ahorizontal series of exit openings, of a continuously-moving conveyersubstantially flush with the bottom of said openings, and a retainingplate at the outer edge of the conveyer; substantially as described.

2. The combination with' ablank-heating furnace having a horizontalseries of exit openings, of a conveyer passing longitudinally beneathand adjacent to said openings and arranged to receive'the blanks drawnfrom said openings, and a rest for the operators rod above the conveyer;substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

WILLIAM D. YOUNG. Witnesses:

W. B. OORWIN, O. BYRNES.

